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ISC GeoUnions Steering Committee

Chair

Vice Chair

Lena HALOUNOVÁ (ISPRS)

Czech Technical University in Prague
CZECH REPUBLIC

Email: isprs-sg@isprs.org

Micheal Meadows (IGU)

University of Cape Town
SOUTH AFRICA

Email: michael.meadows@uct.ac.za

ISC Secretary

Past Chair

Allan ASHWORTH (INQUA)

Email: allan.ashworth@ndsu.edu

Alik ISMAIL-ZADEH (IUGG)

Email: Alik.Ismail-Zadeh@kit.edu



International Astronomical Union (IAU), 2018-2021

President
Debra M. ELMEGREEN

Vassar College
Physics-Astronomy Dept
124 Raymond Avenue
VC Box 278
Poughkeepsie NY 12604-0278
New York (NY), USA

Email: elmegreen@vassar.edu

Secretary General
José Miguel Rodriguez ESPINOSA

Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucía
Post Office 3004
18008 Granada
SPAIN
IAU-general secretary iap fr

President-Elect
Diana Mary WORRAL

University of Bristol
HH Wills Physics Laboratory
Tyndall Avenue
Bristol BS8 1TL
United Kingdom
IAU-assistant general secretary iap fr



International Cartographic Association (ICA), 2019-2023

President
Tim TRAINOR

Consultant, LLC
10382 Stansfield Road
Laurel, Maryland 20723
USA

Email: president@icaci.org

Secretary-General and Treasurer
Thomas SCHULZ

Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA
Swiss Federal Statistical Office FSO
Espace de l Europe 10
CH-2010 Neuchatel
Switzerland

Email: sg@icaci.org

Past President
Menno-Jan KRAAK

Dept. Geo-Information Processing,
Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation
University of Twente
PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede,
The NETHERLANDS

Email: m.j.kraak@utwente.nl



International Geographical Union (IGU), 2020-2024

President
Michael MEADOWS

Emeritus Professor Environmental & Geographical Science Building, South Lane, Upper Campus,
University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch

Email 1: michael.meadows@uct.ac.za

Secretary-General @ Treasurer
Barbaros GÖNENÇGIL

Department of Geography
University of Istanbul
İ.Ü.Edebiyat Fakültesi Coğrafya Bölümü
Ordu Cd. No:196 Laleli – İstanbul
TURKEY

Email 1: barbaros@istanbul.edu.tr

Past President
Yukio HIMIYAMA

Emeritus Professor, Hokkaido University
of Education, and Council Member,
Science Council of Japan

Email 1: himiyamay@kkd.biglobe.ne.jp
Email 2: yukiohimiyama@gmail.com



International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), 2019-2023

President
Thijs Van KOLFSCHOTEN

Leiden University
Rapenburg 70
2311 EZ Leiden
THE NETHERLANDS

Email: t.van.kolfschoten@arch.leidenuniv.nl

Secretary General
Eniko MAGYARI

Eötvös University
Pázmány Péter Stny. 1/C
H-1117 Budapest
HUNGARY

Email: emagyari@caesar.elte.hu

Vice President
Laura Sadori

Universita degli Studi di Roma La
Sapienza: Roma, Lazio
ITALY

Email: laura.sadori@uniroma1.it



International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), 2016-2021

President
Lena HALOUNOVÁ

Czech Technical University
Faculty of Civil Engineering
RS Laboratory
Thákurova 7
166 29 Prague 6
CZECH REPUBLIC

Email: isprs-pr@isprs.org

Secreatary General
Jie JANG

School of Geomatics and Urban Spatial Informatics
Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture
No.1 Zhanlanguan Road, Xicheng District
Nienburger Str. 1
Beijing, 100044
CHINA

Email: isprs-sg@isprs.org

Honorary member
Orhan Altan

Istanbul Technical University
TURKEY

Email: oaltan@itu.edu.tr



International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), 2019-2023

President
Kathryn WHALER

School of GeoSciences
The Grant Institute
The University of Edinburgh
West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JW
UNITED KINGDOM

Email: president@iugg.org

Secretary General
Alexander Rudloff

Helmholtz Centre Potsdam
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Telegrafenberg
14473 Potsdam
GERMANY

Email: sg@iugg.org

Past President
Michael G. SIDERIS

Department of Geomatics Engineering
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive N.W.
Calgary, AB T2N 1N4
CANADA

Email: sideris@ucalgary.ca



International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), 2020-2024

President
John LUDDEN

The Lyell Centre,
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
Edinburgh, EH14 4AP
UNITED KINGDOM

Email 1: J.ludden@hw.ac.uk

Secretary General
Stanley C.FINNEY

Department of Geological Sciences
California State University
Long Beach, CA 90840 USA

Email: scfinney@csulb.edu

Treasurer
Hiroshi KITAZATO

Natsushima-cho 2-15
Yokosuka 237-0061
JAPAN

Email: kitazatoh@jamstec.go.jp



International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS), 2021-2022

President
Laura Bertha REYES SÁNCHEZ

National Autonomous University of
Mexico, Faculty of Higher Studies of
Cuautitlán
Miramar 54, Cumbria. C. P. 54749.
Cuautitlán Izcalli
México

Email: lbrs@unam.mx

Past President
Takashi KOSAKI

Graduate School of
Urban Environmental Sciences
Tokyo Metropolitan University
1-1 Minami-Osawa, Hachioji
Tokyo 192-0397
Japan

Email: kosakit8@tmu.ac.jp

President-Elect
Edoardo A.C. Costantini

President Elect, IUSS
Secretary, European Society for Soil Conservation
Via Mameli 21, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy

Email: eac.costantini@gmail.com



International Union of Radio Science (URSI), 2021-2025

President
Piergiorgio USLENGHI

Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois
851 S. Morgan St, MC 154
Chicago, IL 60607
USA

Email 1: uslenghi@uic.edu
Email 2: president@ursi.org

Secretary General
Peter VAN DAELE

IMEC - Ghent University
IDLab - Dept. of Information Technology
Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 15
B-9052 Gent
BELGIUM

Email 1: Pet.VanDaele@UGent.be
Email 2: secretary-general@ursi.org

Past President
Makoto ANDO

Executive Vice President for Research
Tokyo Institute of Technology
(Professor Emeritus, Dept. Electrical
and Electronic Engineering)
E3-1, 2-12-1, Oookayama
Meguro, Tokyo 152-8550
JAPAN

Email 1: mando@antenna.ee.titech.ac.jp
Email 2: ando@kosen-k.go.jp
Email 3: president@ursi.org